Cannabinoid Treatment For Pain In Cancer Patients
6/06/2012
A new report, published in The Journal of Pain states that a multicenter trial has shown that a new cannabinoid treatment is effective in reducing pain in cancer patients who were not obtaining pain relief from opioids alone...
New Drug Shows Promise For Improved Quality Of Life In Prostate Cancer Patients
6/06/2012
Men with advanced prostate cancer could significantly benefit from a new type of hormone treatment called enzalutamide (formerly MDV3100), say researchers. Results from a Phase III clinical trial showed that the enzalutamide prolonged lives of prostate cancer patients and also improved their quality of life...
Ginseng For Cancer Patients Says Mayo Clinic
6/06/2012
In a trial led by the Mayo Clinic, the herb commonly known as American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), showed good results in helping cancer patients with fatigue, when compared with a placebo. The findings, which will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, looked at 340 patients who were either in the post treatment phase or under going cancer treatment...
Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients Benefit From New Drug Zytiga
6/06/2012
A new medication proved effective in slowing the spread of metastatic prostate cancer, while helping to maintain the quality of life, in patients with advanced disease. The phase 3 study was unblinded midway, allowing patients receiving the placebo to instead take the drug because of the favorable results...
Newly Diagnosed Myeloma Patients Benefit From Drug Combination
6/06/2012
A three-drug treatment for the blood cancer multiple myeloma provided rapid, deep and potentially durable responses, researchers report online in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, and at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA. The researchers, led by Andrzej J. Jakubowiak, M.D., Ph.D...
Immune Therapy For Cancer Ready For Wider Testing
6/06/2012
Two clinical trials led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers in collaboration with other medical centers, testing experimental drugs aimed at restoring the immune system's ability to spot and attack cancer, have shown promising early results in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, melanoma, and kidney cancer...
Metabolic Imaging For Esophageal Cancer Patients Can Increase Life Expectancy
6/06/2012
For those with esophageal cancer, initial staging of the disease is of particular importance as it determines whether to opt for a curative treatment or palliative treatment...
First Atomic-Level Images Of The Circadian CLOCK Complex
6/06/2012
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have taken a major step toward understanding the cellular clock, mapping for the first time the atomic-level architecture of a key component of the timekeeper that governs the body's daily rhythms...
Novel Way To Treat Drug-Resistant Brain Tumor Cells
6/06/2012
New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the incurable brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is highly resistant to current chemotherapies. The study, from the brain-tumor research lab of Dr...
A new cancer treatment that links chemotherapy with an agent that homes in on specific breast cancer cells was significantly better than the current drug regimen at keeping patients' advanced tumors from progressing, according to results from a Phase III clinical trial led by Kimberly Blackwell, M.D., of the Duke Cancer Institute...